CHB5102

Questions of life and death

This subject examines a variety of ethical issues concerning the beginning and end of life, such as the morality of abortion, infanticide, and causing death. The subject also deals with the ethical problems raised by new reproductive research and technologies, such as IVF, embryo experimentation, genetic therapy and genetic engineering. There will be discussion of a range of philosophical problems which are central to these issues, including the sanctity of life doctrine, notions of potentiality, the nature of personhood, the acts/omissions distinction, and the definition of death.

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